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Grettenberger CL, Abou‐Shanab R, Hamilton TL. Limiting factors in the operation of photosystems I and II in cyanobacteria. Microb Biotechnol 2024; 17:e14519. [PMID: 39101352 PMCID: PMC11298993 DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.14519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2024] [Accepted: 06/16/2024] [Indexed: 08/06/2024] Open
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Cyanobacteria are important targets for biotechnological applications due to their ability to grow in a wide variety of environments, rapid growth rates, and tractable genetic systems. They and their bioproducts can be used as bioplastics, biofertilizers, and in carbon capture and produce important secondary metabolites that can be used as pharmaceuticals. However, the photosynthetic process in cyanobacteria can be limited by a wide variety of environmental factors such as light intensity and wavelength, exposure to UV light, nutrient limitation, temperature, and salinity. Carefully considering these limitations, modifying the environment, and/or selecting cyanobacterial species will allow cyanobacteria to be used in biotechnological applications.
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- Christen L. Grettenberger
- Department of Earth and Planetary SciencesUniversity of California DavisDavisCaliforniaUSA
- Department of Environmental ToxicologyUniversity of California DavisDavisCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial BiologyUniversity of MinnesotaSt. PaulMinnesotaUSA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial BiologyUniversity of MinnesotaSt. PaulMinnesotaUSA
- The Biotechnology Institute, University of MinnesotaSt. PaulMinnesotaUSA
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Elanskaya IV, Bulychev AA, Lukashev EP, Muronets EM, Maksimov EG. Roles of ApcD and orange carotenoid protein in photoinduction of electron transport upon dark-light transition in the Synechocystis PCC 6803 mutant deficient in flavodiiron protein Flv1. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2024; 159:97-114. [PMID: 37093504 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-023-01019-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2022] [Accepted: 04/13/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Flavodiiron proteins Flv1/Flv3 accept electrons from photosystem (PS) I. In this work we investigated light adaptation mechanisms of Flv1-deficient mutant of Synechocystis PCC 6803, incapable to form the Flv1/Flv3 heterodimer. First seconds of dark-light transition were studied by parallel measurements of light-induced changes in chlorophyll fluorescence, P700 redox transformations, fluorescence emission at 77 K, and OCP-dependent fluorescence quenching. During the period of Calvin cycle activation upon dark-light transition, the linear electron transport (LET) in wild type is supported by the Flv1/Flv3 heterodimer, whereas in Δflv1 mutant activation of LET upon illumination is preceded by cyclic electron flow that maintains State 2. The State 2-State 1 transition and Orange Carotenoid Protein (OCP)-dependent non-photochemical quenching occur independently of each other, begin in about 10 s after the illumination of the cells and are accompanied by a short-term re-reduction of the PSI reaction center (P700+). ApcD is important for the State 2-State 1 transition in the Δflv1 mutant, but S-M rise in chlorophyll fluorescence was not completely inhibited in Δflv1/ΔapcD mutant. LET in Δflv1 mutant starts earlier than the S-M rise in chlorophyll fluorescence, and the oxidation of plastoquinol (PQH2) pool promotes the activation of PSII, transient re-reduction of P700+ and transition to State 1. An attempt to induce state transition in the wild type under high intensity light using methyl viologen, highly oxidizing P700 and PQH2, was unsuccessful, showing that oxidation of intersystem electron-transport carriers might be insufficient for the induction of State 2-State 1 transition in wild type of Synechocystis under high light.
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- Irina V Elanskaya
- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia.
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Liu R, Zhen ZH, Li W, Ge B, Qin S. How can Phycobilisome, the unique light harvesting system in certain algae working highly efficiently: The connection in between structures and functions. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2024; 186:39-52. [PMID: 38030044 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2023.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2023] [Revised: 11/02/2023] [Accepted: 11/23/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023]
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Algae, which are ubiquitous in ecosystems, have evolved a variety of light-harvesting complexes to better adapt to diverse habitats. Phycobilisomes/phycobiliproteins, unique to cyanobacteria, red algae, and certain cryptomonads, compensate for the lack of chlorophyll absorption, allowing algae to capture and efficiently transfer light energy in aquatic environments. With the advancement of microscopy and spectroscopy, the structure and energy transfer processes of increasingly complex phycobilisomes have been elucidated, providing us with a vivid portrait of the dynamic adaptation of their structures to the light environment in which algae thrive: 1) Cyanobacteria living on the surface of the water use short, small phycobilisomes to absorb red-orange light and reduce the damage from blue-violet light via multiple methods; 2) Large red algae inhabiting the depths of the ocean have evolved long and dense phycobilisomes containing phycoerythrin to capture the feeble blue-green light; 3) In far-red light environments such as caves, algae use special allophycocyanin cores to optimally utilize the far-red light; 4) When the environment shifts, algae can adjust the length, composition and density of their rods to better adapt; 5) By carefully designing the position of the pigments, phycobilisomes can transfer light energy to the reaction center with nearly 100% efficiency via three energy transfer processes.
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- Runze Liu
- Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, Shandong, 264003, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100000, China
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- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, Shandong, 264003, China
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- China University of Petroleum (HUADONG), Qingdao, Shandong, 266580, China
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- Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, Shandong, 264003, China.
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Zlenko DV, Protasova EA, Tsoraev GV, Sluchanko NN, Cherepanov DA, Friedrich T, Ge B, Qin S, Maksimov EG, Rubin AB. Anti-stokes fluorescence of phycobilisome and its complex with the orange carotenoid protein. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA. BIOENERGETICS 2024; 1865:149014. [PMID: 37739300 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2023.149014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2023] [Revised: 09/06/2023] [Accepted: 09/18/2023] [Indexed: 09/24/2023]
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Phycobilisomes (PBSs) are giant water-soluble light-harvesting complexes of cyanobacteria and red algae, consisting of hundreds of phycobiliproteins precisely organized to deliver the energy of absorbed light to chlorophyll chromophores of the photosynthetic electron-transport chain. Quenching the excess of excitation energy is necessary for the photoprotection of photosynthetic apparatus. In cyanobacteria, quenching of PBS excitation is provided by the Orange Carotenoid Protein (OCP), which is activated under high light conditions. In this work, we describe parameters of anti-Stokes fluorescence of cyanobacterial PBSs in quenched and unquenched states. We compare the fluorescence readout from entire phycobilisomes and their fragments. The obtained results revealed the heterogeneity of conformations of chromophores in isolated phycobiliproteins, while such heterogeneity was not observed in the entire PBS. Under excitation by low-energy quanta, we did not detect a significant uphill energy transfer from the core to the peripheral rods of PBS, while the one from the terminal emitters to the bulk allophycocyanin chromophores is highly probable. We show that this direction of energy migration does not eliminate fluorescence quenching in the complex with OCP. Thus, long-wave excitation provides new insights into the pathways of energy conversion in the phycobilisome.
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- Dmitry V Zlenko
- Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia; A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- A.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Federal Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- N.N. Semenov Federal Research Center for Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142432 Moscow, Russia.; A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physical-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Technical University of Berlin, Institute of Chemistry PC 14, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
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- China University of Petroleum (Huadong), College of Chemical Engineering, Qingdao 266580, PR China
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- China University of Petroleum (Huadong), College of Chemical Engineering, Qingdao 266580, PR China; Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai 264003, PR China
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- Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia.
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- Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia
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Bongirwar R, Shukla P. Metabolic sink engineering in cyanobacteria: Perspectives and applications. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2023; 379:128974. [PMID: 36990331 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2023.128974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2023] [Revised: 03/24/2023] [Accepted: 03/25/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Recent advances in metabolic engineering have made cyanobacteria emerge as promising and attractive microorganisms for sustainable production, by exploiting their natural capability for producing metabolites. The potential of metabolically engineered cyanobacterium would depend on its source-sink balance in the same way as other phototrophs. In cyanobacteria, the amount of light energy harvested (Source) is incompletely utilized by the cell to fix carbon (sink) resulting in wastage of the absorbed energy causing photoinhibition and cellular damage leading to lowered photosynthetic efficiency. Although regulatory pathways like photo-acclimation and photoprotective processes can be helpful unfortunately they limit the cell's metabolic capacity. This review describes approaches for source-sink balance and engineering heterologous metabolic sinks in cyanobacteria for enhanced photosynthetic efficiency. The advances for engineering additional metabolic pathways in cyanobacteria are also described which will provide a better understanding of the cyanobacterial source-sink balance and approaches for efficient cyanobacterial strains for valuable metabolites.
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- Riya Bongirwar
- Enzyme Technology and Protein Bioinformatics Laboratory, School of Biotechnology, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Enzyme Technology and Protein Bioinformatics Laboratory, School of Biotechnology, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Golub M, Moldenhauer M, Matsarskaia O, Martel A, Grudinin S, Soloviov D, Kuklin A, Maksimov EG, Friedrich T, Pieper J. Stages of OCP-FRP Interactions in the Regulation of Photoprotection in Cyanobacteria, Part 2: Small-Angle Neutron Scattering with Partial Deuteration. J Phys Chem B 2023; 127:1901-1913. [PMID: 36815674 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c07182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/24/2023]
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We used small-angle neutron scattering partially coupled with size-exclusion chromatography to unravel the solution structures of two variants of the Orange Carotenoid Protein (OCP) lacking the N-terminal extension (OCP-ΔNTE) and its complex formation with the Fluorescence Recovery Protein (FRP). The dark-adapted, orange form OCP-ΔNTEO is fully photoswitchable and preferentially binds the pigment echinenone. Its complex with FRP consists of a monomeric OCP component, which closely resembles the compact structure expected for the OCP ground state, OCPO. In contrast, the pink form OCP-ΔNTEP, preferentially binding the pigment canthaxanthin, is mostly nonswitchable. The pink OCP form appears to occur as a dimer and is characterized by a separation of the N- and C-terminal domains, with the canthaxanthin embedded only into the N-terminal domain. Therefore, OCP-ΔNTEP can be viewed as a prototypical model system for the active, spectrally red-shifted state of OCP, OCPR. The dimeric structure of OCP-ΔNTEP is retained in its complex with FRP. Small-angle neutron scattering using partially deuterated OCP-FRP complexes reveals that FRP undergoes significant structural changes upon complex formation with OCP. The observed structures are assigned to individual intermediates of the OCP photocycle in the presence of FRP.
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- Maksym Golub
- Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Chemistry PC 14, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut Laue-Langevin, Avenue des Martyrs 71, 38042 Cedex 9 Grenoble, France
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- Institut Laue-Langevin, Avenue des Martyrs 71, 38042 Cedex 9 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LJK, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Wieniawskiego 1, 61-712 Poznan, Poland.,Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants, NAS of Ukraine, Kirova 36a, 07270 Chornobyl, Ukraine
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Joliot-Curie str. 6, 141980 Dubna, Russia.,Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Institutskiy per. 9, 141701 Dolgoprudny, Russia
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- Department of Biophysics, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Vorob'jovy Gory 1-12, 119899 Moscow, Russia
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- Institute of Chemistry PC 14, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia
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Hu J, Wang D, Zhang N, Tang K, Bai Y, Tian Y, Li Y, Zhang X. Effects of perfluorooctanoic acid on Microcystis aeruginosa: Stress and self-adaptation mechanisms. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2023; 445:130396. [PMID: 36436455 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.130396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2022] [Revised: 10/29/2022] [Accepted: 11/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The persistent organic pollutant perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) is ubiquitous in aquatic environments. However, little is known about its toxicity to microalgae or the mechanisms by which they may self-adapt to it. We found that growth of the bloom-forming cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa was initially inhibited, with inhibition attenuated after 12 d of PFOA exposure. Growth inhibition gradually decreased and stabilized over time. With increasing PFOA concentration, reactive oxygen species levels and superoxide dismutase and photosystem II activity significantly increased, while respiration, NDH-1 activity, and total carbohydrate content significantly decreased. Self-adaptation mechanisms included antioxidant pathways, energy transfer and distribution of photosystems, and repair of the PSI and NDH complexes. The patterns of change in these parameters were consistent with those of the expression levels of genes in their associated metabolic pathways. Our data suggest that PSII overcompensation might be a strategy by which M. aeruginosa contends with oxidative stress induced by PFOA. Multiple downstream photosynthesis-related proteins were upregulated as a function of PFOA exposure time. These findings may help elucidate physiological, genetic stress and self-adaptive responses of microalgae to PFOA exposure.
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- Jinlu Hu
- School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710072, China.
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- School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710072, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710072, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710072, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710072, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710072, China
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- Institute of Oil and Gas Technology, PetroChina Changqing Oilfield Company, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710018, China
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- College of Life Science, South-Central Minzu University, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China.
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Golub M, Moldenhauer M, Schmitt FJ, Lohstroh W, Friedrich T, Pieper J. Light-Induced Conformational Flexibility of the Orange Carotenoid Protein Studied by Quasielastic Neutron Scattering with In Situ Illumination. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:295-301. [PMID: 36599148 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c03198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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The orange carotenoid protein plays a vital role in the photoprotection of cyanobacteria and exhibits a significant structural change upon photoactivation. A rarely considered aspect is the importance of internal protein dynamics in facilitating the structural transition to the active state. In this study, we use quasielastic neutron scattering under (in situ) blue light illumination for the first time to directly probe the protein dynamics of the orange carotenoid protein in the dark-adapted and active states. This shows that the localized internal dynamics of amino acid residues is significantly enhanced upon photoactivation. This is attributed to the photoinduced structural changes exposing larger areas of the protein surface to the solvent, thus resulting in a higher degree of motional freedom. However, the flexibility of the W288A mutant assumed to mimic the active state structure is found to be different, thus highlighting the importance of in situ experiments.
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- Maksym Golub
- Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, W. Ostwald strasse 1, 50411 Tartu, Estonia
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- Technische Universität Berlin, Institute of Chemistry PC 14, Straße des 17, Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg, Institute of Physics, Von-Danckelmann-Platz 3, 06120 Halle, Germany
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- Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ), Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstraße 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Technische Universität Berlin, Institute of Chemistry PC 14, Straße des 17, Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, W. Ostwald strasse 1, 50411 Tartu, Estonia
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Srivastava R, Kanda T, Yadav S, Singh N, Yadav S, Prajapati R, Kesari V, Atri N. Salinity pretreatment synergies heat shock toxicity in cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC7120. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1061927. [PMID: 36876104 PMCID: PMC9983364 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1061927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2022] [Accepted: 01/16/2023] [Indexed: 02/18/2023] Open
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This study was undertaken to bridge the knowledge gap pertaining to cyanobacteria's response to pretreatment. The result elucidates the synergistic effect of pretreatment toxicity in cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC7120 on morphological and biochemical attributes. Chemical (salt) and physical (heat) stress-pretreated cells exhibited significant and reproducible changes in terms of growth pattern, morphology, pigments, lipid peroxidation, and antioxidant activity. Salinity pretreatment showed more than a five-fold decrease in the phycocyanin content but a six-fold and five-fold increase in carotenoid, lipid peroxidation (MDA content), and antioxidant activity (SOD and CAT) at 1 h and on 3rd day of treatment, respectively, giving the impression of stress-induced free radicals that are scavenged by antioxidants when compared to heat shock pretreatment. Furthermore, quantitative analysis of transcript (qRT-PCR) for FeSOD and MnSOD displayed a 3.6- and 1.8-fold increase in salt-pretreated (S-H) samples. The upregulation of transcript corresponding to salt pretreatment suggests a toxic role of salinity in synergizing heat shock. However, heat pretreatment suggests a protective role in mitigating salt toxicity. It could be inferred that pretreatment enhances the deleterious effect. However, it further showed that salinity (chemical stress) augments the damaging effect of heat shock (physical stress) more profoundly than physical stress on chemical stress possibly by modulating redox balance via activation of antioxidant responses. Our study reveals that upon pretreatment of heat, the negative effect of salt can be mitigated in filamentous cyanobacteria, thus providing a foundation for improved cyanobacterial tolerance to salt stress.
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- Rupanshee Srivastava
- Department of Botany, Institute of Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
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- Department of Botany, Institute of Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
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- Department of Botany, Institute of Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
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- Department of Botany, Institute of Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
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- Department of Botany, Thakur Prasad Singh (T.P.S.) College, Patna, Bihar, India
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- Department of Botany, Institute of Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
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- Department of Botany, Institute of Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
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- Department of Botany, Mahila Mahavidyalaya (M.M.V.), Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
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Zhang X, Ai S, Wei J, Yang X, Huang Y, Hu J, Wang Q, Wang H. Biphasic effects of typical chlorinated organophosphorus flame retardants on Microcystis aeruginosa. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 2022; 241:113813. [PMID: 36068742 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2022.113813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2022] [Revised: 06/21/2022] [Accepted: 06/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The potential accumulation of chlorinated organophosphorus flame retardants (Cl-OPFRs) in aquatic environments sparked interest in studying the effects of Cl-OPFRs on cyanobacterial blooms. In this work, two common Cl-OPFRs, tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate (TDCPP) and tris(2-chloroethyl) phosphate (TCEP), induced dose-dependent biphasic effect on bloom-forming M. aeruginosa. The hormetic response to low-dose Cl-OPFRs was associated with the upregulation of the type I NADH dehydrogenase (NDH-1) complex and its mediated cyclic electron transfer (CET) pathway, as reflected by a transient post-illumination increase in chlorophyll fluorescence, the dark reduction of P700+ and the change of NDH-1-related gene expression. The increased CET activity and carotenoid content jointly reduced the intracellular ROS production, facilitating cyanobacterial growth. Conversely, a higher concentration of both Cl-OPFRs induced severe inhibition of growth and photosynthetic oxygen-evolving activity through an imbalance between PSII and PSI. Toxic-dose Cl-OPFRs inhibited state transition and fixed cells into the State I with a higher PSII/PSI ratio, as indicated by chlorophyll fluorescence induction, 77 K fluorescence emission spectra and photosystem stoichiometry. The elevated PSII/PSI ratio created an imbalance between the two photosystems and eventually lead to ROS overproduction, which generate adverse effects on cell growth. This work provides important insights into the hormetic mechanism of Cl-OPFRs on Microcystis aeruginosa and their potential roles in harmful cyanobacteria blooms.
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- Xin Zhang
- College of Life Science, South-Central Minzu University, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China
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- College of Life Science, South-Central Minzu University, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China
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- College of Life Science, South-Central Minzu University, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China
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- College of Life Science, South-Central Minzu University, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China
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- College of Life Science, South-Central Minzu University, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710072, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Adaptation and Improvement, School of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan 475004, China
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- College of Life Science, South-Central Minzu University, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China.
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Wang X, Ge H, Zhang Y, Wang Y, Zhang P. Ser/Thr Protein Kinase SpkI Affects Photosynthetic Efficiency in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 upon Salt Stress. Life (Basel) 2022; 12:life12050713. [PMID: 35629380 PMCID: PMC9143257 DOI: 10.3390/life12050713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2022] [Revised: 04/26/2022] [Accepted: 05/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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High salinity is a common environmental factor that limits productivity and growth for photosynthetic organisms. Here, we identified a mutant defected in gene sll1770, which encodes a Ser/Thr protein kinase SpkI, with a significantly low maximal quantum yield of PSII under high salt condition in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Physiological characterization demonstrated that the ΔspkI mutant had normal growth and photosynthesis under control condition. And a significantly higher NPQ capacity was also observed in ΔspkI when grown under control condition. However, when grown under high salt condition, ΔspkI exhibited apparently slower growth as well as decreased net photosynthesis and PSII activity. Western blot analysis demonstrated that the amount of major photosynthetic proteins declined sharply in ΔspkI when cells grown under high salt condition. Redox kinetics measurement suggested that the activities of PSI and cytochrome b6f complex were modified in ΔspkI under high salt condition, which resulted in a more reduced PQ pool in ΔspkI. Chlorophyll fluorescence traces suggested that the OA− reoxidation and state transition was also impaired in ΔspkI under high salt condition. Above all, we propose that Ser/Thr protein kinase SpkI plays a role in maintaining high-effective photosynthesis during high-salt acclimation process in Synechocystis.
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- Xiaoting Wang
- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China; (X.W.); (Y.Z.)
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- Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; (H.G.); (Y.W.)
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China; (X.W.); (Y.Z.)
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- Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; (H.G.); (Y.W.)
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China; (X.W.); (Y.Z.)
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Gorbunov MY, Falkowski PG. Using Chlorophyll Fluorescence to Determine the Fate of Photons Absorbed by Phytoplankton in the World's Oceans. ANNUAL REVIEW OF MARINE SCIENCE 2022; 14:213-238. [PMID: 34460315 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-marine-032621-122346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Approximately 45% of the photosynthetically fixed carbon on Earth occurs in the oceans in phytoplankton, which account for less than 1% of the world's photosynthetic biomass. This amazing empirical observation implies a very high photosynthetic energy conversion efficiency, but how efficiently is the solar energy actually used? The photon energy budget of photosynthesis can be divided into three terms: the quantum yields of photochemistry, fluorescence, and heat. Measuring two of these three processes closes the energy budget. The development of ultrasensitive, seagoing chlorophyll variable fluorescence and picosecond fluorescence lifetime instruments has allowed independent closure on the first two terms. With this closure, we can understand how phytoplankton respond to nutrient supplies on timescales of hours to months and, over longer timescales, to changes in climate.
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- Maxim Y Gorbunov
- Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, USA; ,
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- Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, USA; ,
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Rai R, Singh S, Rai KK, Raj A, Sriwastaw S, Rai LC. Regulation of antioxidant defense and glyoxalase systems in cyanobacteria. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2021; 168:353-372. [PMID: 34700048 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2021.09.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2021] [Revised: 09/09/2021] [Accepted: 09/28/2021] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Oxidative stress is common consequence of abiotic stress in plants as well as cyanobacteria caused by generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), an inevitable product of respiration and photosynthetic electron transport. ROS act as signalling molecule at low concentration however, when its production exceeds the endurance capacity of antioxidative defence system, the organisms suffer oxidative stress. A highly toxic metabolite, methylglyoxal (MG) is also produced in cyanobacteria in response to various abiotic stresses which consequently augment the ensuing oxidative damage. Taking recourse to the common lineage of eukaryotic plants and cyanobacteria, it would be worthwhile to explore the regulatory role of glyoxalase system and antioxidative defense mechanism in combating abiotic stress in cyanobacteria. This review provides comprehensive information on the complete glyoxalase system (GlyI, GlyII and GlyIII) in cyanobacteria. Furthermore, it elucidates the recent understanding regarding the production of ROS and MG, noteworthy link between intracellular MG and ROS and its detoxification via synchronization of antioxidants (enzymatic and non-enzymatic) and glyoxalase systems using glutathione (GSH) as common co-factor.
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- Ruchi Rai
- Molecular Biology Section, Centre of Advanced Study in Botany, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005, India
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- Molecular Biology Section, Centre of Advanced Study in Botany, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005, India
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- Molecular Biology Section, Centre of Advanced Study in Botany, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005, India
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- Molecular Biology Section, Centre of Advanced Study in Botany, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005, India
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- Molecular Biology Section, Centre of Advanced Study in Botany, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005, India
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- Molecular Biology Section, Centre of Advanced Study in Botany, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005, India.
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Bolychevtseva YV, Tropin IV, Stadnichuk IN. State 1 and State 2 in Photosynthetic Apparatus of Red Microalgae and Cyanobacteria. BIOCHEMISTRY. BIOKHIMIIA 2021; 86:1181-1191. [PMID: 34903149 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297921100023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2021] [Revised: 06/23/2021] [Accepted: 06/23/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Imbalanced light absorption by photosystem I (PSI) and photosystem II (PSII) in oxygenic phototrophs leads to changes in interaction of photosystems altering the linear electron flow. In plants and green algae, this imbalance is mitigated by a partial migration of the chlorophyll a/b containing light-harvesting antenna between the two photosystem core complexes. This migration is registered as fluorescence changes of the pigment apparatus and is termed the reverse transitions between States 1 and 2. By contrast, the molecular mechanism of State 1/2 transitions in phycobilisome (PBS)-containing photosynthetics, cyanobacteria and red algae, is still insufficiently understood. The suggested hypotheses - PBS movement along the surface of thylakoid membrane between PSI and PSII complexes, reversible PBS detachment from the dimeric PSII complex, and spillover - have some limitations as they do not fully explain the accumulated data. Here, we have recorded changes in the stationary fluorescence emission spectra of red algae and cyanobacteria in States 1/2 at room temperature, which allowed us to offer an explanation of the existing contradictions. The change of room temperature fluorescence of chlorophyll belonged to PSII was revealed, while the fluorescence of PBS associated with the PSII complexes remained during States 1/2 transitions at the stable level. Only the reversible dissociation of PBS from the monomeric PSI was revealed earlier which implied different degree of surface contact of PBS with the two photosystems. The detachment of PBS from the PSI corresponds to ferredoxin oxidation as electron carrier and the increase of cyclic electron transport in the pigment apparatus in State I.
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- Yulia V Bolychevtseva
- Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Research Center of Biotechnology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119071, Russia.
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- Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- Timiryasev Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 127726, Russia.
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Xiang Y, Yan H, Zheng B, Faheem A, Guo A, Hu C, Hu Y. Light-Regulated Natural Fluorescence of the PCC 6803@ZIF-8 Composite as an Encoded Microsphere for the Detection of Multiple Biomarkers. ACS Sens 2021; 6:2574-2583. [PMID: 34156832 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.1c00104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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The use of color-encoded microspheres for a bead-based assay has attracted increasing attention for high-throughput multiplexed bioassays. A fluorescent PCC 6803@ZIF-8 composite was prepared as a bead-based assay platform by a self-assembled zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF-8) on the surface of inactivated PCC 6803 cells. The composite fluorescence owing to the presence of pigment proteins in PCC 6803 could be gradually bleached with the prolongation of the ultraviolet light irradiation time. The composites with different fluorescence intensities were therefore obtained as encoded microspheres for the multiplexed assay. ZIF-8 provides a stable, rigid shell and a large specific surface area for composites, which prevent the composites from breakage during use and storage, simplify the protein immobilization procedure, reduce non-specific adsorption, and enhance the detection sensitivity. The encoded composites were successfully used to detect multiple DNA insertion sequences of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The presented strategy offers an innovative color-encoding method for high-throughput multiplexed bioassays without the need of using chemically synthesized fluorescent materials.
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- Yuqiang Xiang
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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Kaňa R, Steinbach G, Sobotka R, Vámosi G, Komenda J. Fast Diffusion of the Unassembled PetC1-GFP Protein in the Cyanobacterial Thylakoid Membrane. Life (Basel) 2020; 11:life11010015. [PMID: 33383642 PMCID: PMC7823997 DOI: 10.3390/life11010015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2020] [Revised: 12/17/2020] [Accepted: 12/20/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Biological membranes were originally described as a fluid mosaic with uniform distribution of proteins and lipids. Later, heterogeneous membrane areas were found in many membrane systems including cyanobacterial thylakoids. In fact, cyanobacterial pigment-protein complexes (photosystems, phycobilisomes) form a heterogeneous mosaic of thylakoid membrane microdomains (MDs) restricting protein mobility. The trafficking of membrane proteins is one of the key factors for long-term survival under stress conditions, for instance during exposure to photoinhibitory light conditions. However, the mobility of unbound 'free' proteins in thylakoid membrane is poorly characterized. In this work, we assessed the maximal diffusional ability of a small, unbound thylakoid membrane protein by semi-single molecule FCS (fluorescence correlation spectroscopy) method in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803. We utilized a GFP-tagged variant of the cytochrome b6f subunit PetC1 (PetC1-GFP), which was not assembled in the b6f complex due to the presence of the tag. Subsequent FCS measurements have identified a very fast diffusion of the PetC1-GFP protein in the thylakoid membrane (D = 0.14 - 2.95 µm2s-1). This means that the mobility of PetC1-GFP was comparable with that of free lipids and was 50-500 times higher in comparison to the mobility of proteins (e.g., IsiA, LHCII-light-harvesting complexes of PSII) naturally associated with larger thylakoid membrane complexes like photosystems. Our results thus demonstrate the ability of free thylakoid-membrane proteins to move very fast, revealing the crucial role of protein-protein interactions in the mobility restrictions for large thylakoid protein complexes.
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- Radek Kaňa
- Center ALGATECH, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 37901 Třeboň, Czech Republic; (R.S.); (J.K.)
- Correspondence:
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- Institute of Biophysics, Biological Research Center, 6726 Szeged, Hungary;
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- Center ALGATECH, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 37901 Třeboň, Czech Republic; (R.S.); (J.K.)
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- Department of Biophysics and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary;
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- Center ALGATECH, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 37901 Třeboň, Czech Republic; (R.S.); (J.K.)
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Over Expression of the Cyanobacterial Pgr5-Homologue Leads to Pseudoreversion in a Gene Coding for a Putative Esterase in Synechocystis 6803. Life (Basel) 2020; 10:life10090174. [PMID: 32899164 PMCID: PMC7555055 DOI: 10.3390/life10090174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2020] [Revised: 08/31/2020] [Accepted: 09/01/2020] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Pgr5 proteins play a major direct role in cyclic electron flow paths in plants and eukaryotic phytoplankton. The genomes of many cyanobacterial species code for Pgr5-like proteins but their function is still uncertain. Here, we present evidence that supports a link between the Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 Pgr5-like protein and the regulation of intracellular redox balance. The knockout strain, pgr5KO, did not display substantial phenotypic response under our experimental conditions, confirming results obtained in earlier studies. However, the overexpression strain, pgr5OE, accumulated 2.5-fold more chlorophyll than the wild type and displayed increased content of photosystems matching the chlorophyll increase. As a result, electron transfer rates through the photosynthetic apparatus of pgr5OE increased, as did the amount of energy stored as glycogen. While, under photoautotrophic conditions, this metabolic difference had only minor effects, under mixotrophic conditions, pgr5OE cultures collapsed. Interestingly, this specific phenotype of pgr5OE mutants displayed a tendency for reverting, and cultures which previously collapsed in the presence of glucose were now able to survive. DNA sequencing of a pgr5OE strain revealed a second site suppression mutation in slr1916, a putative esterase associated with redox regulation. The phenotype of the slr1916 knockout is very similar to that of the strain reported here and to that of the pmgA regulator knockout. These data demonstrate that, in Synechocystis 6803, there is strong selection against overexpression of the Pgr5-like protein. The pseudoreversion event in a gene involved in redox regulation suggests a connection of the Pgr5-like protein to this network.
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Lou W, Niedzwiedzki DM, Jiang RJ, Blankenship RE, Liu H. Binding of red form of Orange Carotenoid Protein (OCP) to phycobilisome is not sufficient for quenching. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2020; 1861:148155. [PMID: 31935359 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2020.148155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2019] [Revised: 12/06/2019] [Accepted: 01/08/2020] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The Orange Carotenoid Protein (OCP) is responsible for photoprotection in many cyanobacteria. Absorption of blue light drives the conversion of the orange, inactive form (OCPO) to the red, active form (OCPR). Concomitantly, the N-terminal domain (NTD) and the C-terminal domain (CTD) of OCP separate, which ultimately leads to the formation of a quenched OCPR-PBS complex. The details of the photoactivation of OCP have been intensely researched. Binding site(s) of OCPR on the PBS core have also been proposed. However, the post-binding events of the OCPR-PBS complex remain unclear. Here, we demonstrate that PBS-bound OCPR is not sufficient as a PBS excitation energy quencher. Using site-directed mutagenesis, we generated a suite of single point mutations at OCP Leucine 51 (L51) of Synechocystis 6803. Steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence analyses demonstrated that all mutant proteins are unable to quench the PBS fluorescence, owing to either failed OCP binding to PBS, or, if bound, an OCP-PBS quenching state failed to form. The SDS-PAGE and Western blot analysis support that the L51A (Alanine) mutant binds to the PBS and therefore belongs to the second category. We hypothesize that upon binding to PBS, OCPR likely reorganizes and adopts a new conformational state (OCP3rd) different than either OCPO or OCPR to allow energy quenching, depending on the cross-talk between OCPR and its PBS core-binding counterpart.
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- Wenjing Lou
- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
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- Center for Solar Energy and Energy Storage, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA; Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA; Department of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA; Department of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA.
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Calzadilla PI, Kirilovsky D. Revisiting cyanobacterial state transitions. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2020; 19:585-603. [DOI: 10.1039/c9pp00451c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Critical evaluation of “new” and “old” models of cyanobacterial state transitions. Phycobilisome and membrane contributions to this mechanism are addressed. The signaling transduction pathway is discussed.
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- Pablo I. Calzadilla
- Université Paris-Saclay
- CNRS
- CEA
- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC)
- 91198 Gif sur Yvette
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- Université Paris-Saclay
- CNRS
- CEA
- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC)
- 91198 Gif sur Yvette
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Kirilovsky D. Modulating Energy Transfer from Phycobilisomes to Photosystems: State Transitions and OCP-Related Non-Photochemical Quenching. PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN ALGAE: BIOCHEMICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-33397-3_14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Golub M, Moldenhauer M, Schmitt FJ, Lohstroh W, Maksimov EG, Friedrich T, Pieper J. Solution Structure and Conformational Flexibility in the Active State of the Orange Carotenoid Protein. Part II: Quasielastic Neutron Scattering. J Phys Chem B 2019; 123:9536-9545. [PMID: 31550157 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b05073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Orange carotenoid proteins (OCPs), which are protecting cyanobacterial light-harvesting antennae from photodamage, undergo a pronounced structural change upon light absorption. In addition, the active state is anticipated to boost a significantly higher molecular flexibility similar to a "molten globule" state. Here, we used quasielastic neutron scattering to directly characterize the vibrational and conformational molecular dynamics of OCP in its ground and active states, respectively, on the picosecond time scale. At a temperature of 100 K, we observe mainly (vibronic) inelastic features with peak energies at 5 and 6 meV (40 and 48 cm-1, respectively). At physiological temperatures, however, two (Lorentzian) quasielastic components represent localized protein motions, that is, stochastic structural fluctuations of protein side chains between various conformational substates of the protein. Global diffusion of OCP is not observed on the given time scale. The slower Lorentzian component is affected by illumination and can be well-characterized by a jump-diffusion model. While the jump diffusion constant D is (2.82 ± 0.01) × 10-5 cm2/s at 300 K in the ground state, it is increased by ∼20% to (3.48 ± 0.01) × 10-5 cm2/s in the active state, revealing a strong enhancement of molecular mobility. The increased mobility is also reflected in the average atomic mean square displacement ⟨u2⟩; we determine a ⟨u2⟩ of 1.47 ± 0.05 Å in the ground state, but 1.86 ± 0.05 Å in the active state (at 300 K). This effect is assigned to two factors: (i) the elongated structure of the active state with two widely separated protein domains is characterized by a larger number of surface residues with a concomitantly higher degree of motional freedom and (ii) a larger number of hydration water molecules bound at the surface of the protein. We thus conclude that the active state of the orange carotenoid protein displays an enhanced conformational dynamics. The higher degree of flexibility may provide additional channels for nonradiative decay so that harmful excess energy can be more efficiently converted to heat.
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- Maksym Golub
- Institute of Physics , University of Tartu , 50411 Tartu , Estonia
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- Technische Universität Berlin , Institute of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry , 10623 Berlin , Germany
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- Technische Universität Berlin , Institute of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry , 10623 Berlin , Germany
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- Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum , Technische Universität München , Garching , Germany
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- Department of Biophysics , M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University , Moscow , Russia
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- Technische Universität Berlin , Institute of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry , 10623 Berlin , Germany
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- Institute of Physics , University of Tartu , 50411 Tartu , Estonia
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Golub M, Moldenhauer M, Schmitt FJ, Feoktystov A, Mändar H, Maksimov E, Friedrich T, Pieper J. Solution Structure and Conformational Flexibility in the Active State of the Orange Carotenoid Protein: Part I. Small-Angle Scattering. J Phys Chem B 2019; 123:9525-9535. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b05071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Maksym Golub
- Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia
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- Technische Universität Berlin, Institute of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Technische Universität Berlin, Institute of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS) at Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ), Lichtenbergstraße 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia
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- M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Technische Universität Berlin, Institute of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia
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Strašková A, Steinbach G, Konert G, Kotabová E, Komenda J, Tichý M, Kaňa R. Pigment-protein complexes are organized into stable microdomains in cyanobacterial thylakoids. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2019; 1860:148053. [PMID: 31344362 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2019.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2018] [Revised: 06/28/2019] [Accepted: 07/18/2019] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Thylakoids are the place of the light-photosynthetic reactions. To gain maximal efficiency, these reactions are conditional to proper pigment-pigment and protein-protein interactions. In higher plants thylakoids, the interactions lead to a lateral asymmetry in localization of protein complexes (i.e. granal/stromal thylakoids) that have been defined as a domain-like structures characteristic by different biochemical composition and function (Albertsson P-Å. 2001,Trends Plant Science 6: 349-354). We explored this complex organization of thylakoid pigment-proteins at single cell level in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Our 3D confocal images captured heterogeneous distribution of all main photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes (PPCs), Photosystem I (fluorescently tagged by YFP), Photosystem II and Phycobilisomes. The acquired images depicted cyanobacterial thylakoid membrane as a stable, mosaic-like structure formed by microdomains (MDs). These microcompartments are of sub-micrometer in sizes (~0.5-1.5 μm), typical by particular PPCs ratios and importantly without full segregation of observed complexes. The most prevailing MD is represented by MD with high Photosystem I content which allows also partial separation of Photosystems like in higher plants thylakoids. We assume that MDs stability (in minutes) provides optimal conditions for efficient excitation/electron transfer. The cyanobacterial MDs thus define thylakoid membrane organization as a system controlled by co-localization of three main PPCs leading to formation of thylakoid membrane mosaic. This organization might represent evolutional and functional precursor for the granal/stromal spatial heterogeneity in photosystems that is typical for higher plant thylakoids.
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- A Strašková
- Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre Algatech, Novohradská 237, 379 81 Třeboň, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre Algatech, Novohradská 237, 379 81 Třeboň, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre Algatech, Novohradská 237, 379 81 Třeboň, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre Algatech, Novohradská 237, 379 81 Třeboň, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre Algatech, Novohradská 237, 379 81 Třeboň, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre Algatech, Novohradská 237, 379 81 Třeboň, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre Algatech, Novohradská 237, 379 81 Třeboň, Czech Republic.
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Calzadilla PI, Muzzopappa F, Sétif P, Kirilovsky D. Different roles for ApcD and ApcF in Synechococcus elongatus and Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 phycobilisomes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2019; 1860:488-498. [PMID: 31029593 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2019.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2018] [Revised: 12/20/2018] [Accepted: 01/06/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The phycobilisome, the cyanobacterial light harvesting complex, is a huge phycobiliprotein containing extramembrane complex, formed by a core from which rods radiate. The phycobilisome has evolved to efficiently absorb sun energy and transfer it to the photosystems via the last energy acceptors of the phycobilisome, ApcD and ApcE. ApcF also affects energy transfer by interacting with ApcE. In this work we studied the role of ApcD and ApcF in energy transfer and state transitions in Synechococcus elongatus and Synechocystis PCC6803. Our results demonstrate that these proteins have different roles in both processes in the two strains. The lack of ApcD and ApcF inhibits state transitions in Synechocystis but not in S. elongatus. In addition, lack of ApcF decreases energy transfer to both photosystems only in Synechocystis, while the lack of ApcD alters energy transfer to photosystem I only in S. elongatus. Thus, conclusions based on results obtained in one cyanobacterial strain cannot be systematically transferred to other strains and the putative role(s) of phycobilisomes in state transitions need to be reconsidered.
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- Pablo I Calzadilla
- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France.
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Squires AH, Dahlberg PD, Liu H, Magdaong NCM, Blankenship RE, Moerner WE. Single-molecule trapping and spectroscopy reveals photophysical heterogeneity of phycobilisomes quenched by Orange Carotenoid Protein. Nat Commun 2019; 10:1172. [PMID: 30862823 PMCID: PMC6414729 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09084-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2018] [Accepted: 02/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The Orange Carotenoid Protein (OCP) is a cytosolic photosensor that is responsible for non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) of the light-harvesting process in most cyanobacteria. Upon photoactivation by blue-green light, OCP binds to the phycobilisome antenna complex, providing an excitonic trap to thermally dissipate excess energy. At present, both the binding site and NPQ mechanism of OCP are unknown. Using an Anti-Brownian ELectrokinetic (ABEL) trap, we isolate single phycobilisomes in free solution, both in the presence and absence of activated OCP, to directly determine the photophysics and heterogeneity of OCP-quenched phycobilisomes. Surprisingly, we observe two distinct OCP-quenched states, with lifetimes 0.09 ns (6% of unquenched brightness) and 0.21 ns (11% brightness). Photon-by-photon Monte Carlo simulations of exciton transfer through the phycobilisome suggest that the observed quenched states are kinetically consistent with either two or one bound OCPs, respectively, underscoring an additional mechanism for excitation control in this key photosynthetic unit. Upon photoactivation the Orange Carotenoid Protein (OCP) binds to the phycobilisome and prevents damage by thermally dissipating excess energy. Here authors use an Anti-Brownian ELectrokinetic trap to determine the photophysics of single OCP-quenched phycobilisomes and observe two distinct OCP-quenched states with either one or two OCPs bound.
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- Allison H Squires
- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Departments of Biology and Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 63130, USA
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- Departments of Biology and Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 63130, USA
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- Departments of Biology and Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 63130, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
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Takahashi H, Kusama Y, Li X, Takaichi S, Nishiyama Y. Overexpression of Orange Carotenoid Protein Protects the Repair of PSII under Strong Light in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2019; 60:367-375. [PMID: 30398652 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcy218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2018] [Accepted: 11/01/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Orange carotenoid protein (OCP) plays a vital role in the thermal dissipation of excitation energy in the photosynthetic machinery of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. To clarify the role of OCP in the protection of PSII from strong light, we generated an OCP-overexpressing strain of Synechocystis and examined the effects of overexpression on the photoinhibition of PSII. In OCP-overexpressing cells, thermal dissipation of energy was enhanced and the extent of photoinhibition of PSII was reduced. However, photodamage to PSII, as monitored in the presence of lincomycin, was unaffected, suggesting that overexpressed OCP protects the repair of PSII. Furthermore, the synthesis de novo of proteins in thylakoid membranes, such as the D1 protein which is required for the repair of PSII, was enhanced in OCP-overexpressing cells under strong light, while the production of singlet oxygen was suppressed. Thus, the enhanced thermal dissipation of energy via overexpressed OCP might support the repair of PSII by protecting protein synthesis from oxidative damage by singlet oxygen under strong light, with the resultant mitigation of photoinhibition of PSII.
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- Hiroko Takahashi
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Tokyo University of Agriculture, 1-1-1 Sakuragaoka, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama, Japan
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Ranjbar Choubeh R, Wientjes E, Struik PC, Kirilovsky D, van Amerongen H. State transitions in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus 7942 involve reversible quenching of the photosystem II core. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2018; 1859:1059-1066. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2018.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2018] [Revised: 05/17/2018] [Accepted: 06/08/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Sonani RR, Gardiner A, Rastogi RP, Cogdell R, Robert B, Madamwar D. Site, trigger, quenching mechanism and recovery of non-photochemical quenching in cyanobacteria: recent updates. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2018; 137:171-180. [PMID: 29574660 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-018-0498-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2017] [Accepted: 03/08/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Cyanobacteria exhibit a novel form of non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) at the level of the phycobilisome. NPQ is a process that protects photosystem II (PSII) from possible highlight-induced photo-damage. Although significant advancement has been made in understanding the NPQ, there are still some missing details. This critical review focuses on how the orange carotenoid protein (OCP) and its partner fluorescence recovery protein (FRP) control the extent of quenching. What is and what is not known about the NPQ is discussed under four subtitles; where does exactly the site of quenching lie? (site), how is the quenching being triggered? (trigger), molecular mechanism of quenching (quenching) and recovery from quenching. Finally, a recent working model of NPQ, consistent with recent findings, is been described.
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- Ravi R Sonani
- Post-Graduate Department of Biosciences, Sardar Patel University, Bakrol, Anand, Gujarat, 388315, India.
- Institute of Molecular, Cell and System Biology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8TA, UK.
- CEA, Institute of Biology and Technology of Saclay, CNRS, 91191, Gif/Yvette, France.
- School of Sciences, P. P. Savani University, Dhamdod, Kosamba, Surat, Gujarat, 394125, India.
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- Institute of Molecular, Cell and System Biology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8TA, UK
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- Post-Graduate Department of Biosciences, Sardar Patel University, Bakrol, Anand, Gujarat, 388315, India
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- Institute of Molecular, Cell and System Biology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8TA, UK.
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- CEA, Institute of Biology and Technology of Saclay, CNRS, 91191, Gif/Yvette, France.
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- Post-Graduate Department of Biosciences, Sardar Patel University, Bakrol, Anand, Gujarat, 388315, India.
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Bernát G, Steinbach G, Kaňa R, Misra AN, Prašil O. On the origin of the slow M-T chlorophyll a fluorescence decline in cyanobacteria: interplay of short-term light-responses. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2018; 136:183-198. [PMID: 29090427 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-017-0458-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2017] [Accepted: 09/21/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The slow kinetic phases of the chlorophyll a fluorescence transient (induction) are valuable tools in studying dynamic regulation of light harvesting, light energy distribution between photosystems, and heat dissipation in photosynthetic organisms. However, the origin of these phases are not yet fully understood. This is especially true in the case of prokaryotic oxygenic photoautotrophs, the cyanobacteria. To understand the origin of the slowest (tens of minutes) kinetic phase, the M-T fluorescence decline, in the context of light acclimation of these globally important microorganisms, we have compared spectrally resolved fluorescence induction data from the wild type Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 cells, using orange (λ = 593 nm) actinic light, with those of mutants, ΔapcD and ΔOCP, that are unable to perform either state transition or fluorescence quenching by orange carotenoid protein (OCP), respectively. Our results suggest a multiple origin of the M-T decline and reveal a complex interplay of various known regulatory processes in maintaining the redox homeostasis of a cyanobacterial cell. In addition, they lead us to suggest that a new type of regulatory process, operating on the timescale of minutes to hours, is involved in dissipating excess light energy in cyanobacteria.
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- Gábor Bernát
- Laboratory of Photosynthesis, Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences, Opatovicky mlyn, 379 81, Třeboň, Czech Republic.
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- Laboratory of Photosynthesis, Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences, Opatovicky mlyn, 379 81, Třeboň, Czech Republic
- Institute of Biophysics, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Temesvári krt. 62, Szeged, 6726, Hungary
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- Laboratory of Photosynthesis, Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences, Opatovicky mlyn, 379 81, Třeboň, Czech Republic
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- Centre for Life Sciences, Central University of Jharkand, Ranchi, 835205, Jharkand, India
- Khallikote Cluster University, Berhampur, 76001, Odisha, India
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- Laboratory of Photosynthesis, Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences, Opatovicky mlyn, 379 81, Třeboň, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, 37005, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
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Sluchanko NN, Slonimskiy YB, Maksimov EG. Features of Protein-Protein Interactions in the Cyanobacterial Photoprotection Mechanism. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2018. [PMID: 29523061 DOI: 10.1134/s000629791713003x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Photoprotective mechanisms of cyanobacteria are characterized by several features associated with the structure of their water-soluble antenna complexes - the phycobilisomes (PBs). During energy transfer from PBs to chlorophyll of photosystem reaction centers, the "energy funnel" principle is realized, which regulates energy flux due to the specialized interaction of the PBs core with a quenching molecule capable of effectively dissipating electron excitation energy into heat. The role of the quencher is performed by ketocarotenoid within the photoactive orange carotenoid protein (OCP), which is also a sensor for light flux. At a high level of insolation, OCP is reversibly photoactivated, and this is accompanied by a significant change in its structure and spectral characteristics. Such conformational changes open the possibility for protein-protein interactions between OCP and the PBs core (i.e., activation of photoprotection mechanisms) or the fluorescence recovery protein. Even though OCP was discovered in 1981, little was known about the conformation of its active form until recently, as well as about the properties of homologs of its N and C domains. Studies carried out during recent years have made a breakthrough in understanding of the structural-functional organization of OCP and have enabled discovery of new aspects of the regulation of photoprotection processes in cyanobacteria. This review focuses on aspects of protein-protein interactions between the main participants of photoprotection reactions and on certain properties of representatives of newly discovered families of OCP homologs.
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- N N Sluchanko
- Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Federal Research Center "Fundamentals of Biotechnology", Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119071, Russia.
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Inhibition of Cyanobacterial Growth on a Municipal Wastewater Sidestream Is Impacted by Temperature. mSphere 2018; 3:mSphere00538-17. [PMID: 29507895 PMCID: PMC5830474 DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00538-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2017] [Accepted: 02/07/2018] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Cyanobacteria are viewed as promising platforms to produce fuels and/or high-value chemicals as part of so-called “biorefineries.” Their integration into wastewater treatment systems is particularly interesting because removal of the nitrogen and phosphorus in many wastewater streams is an expensive but necessary part of wastewater treatment. In this study, we evaluated strategies for cultivating Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7002 on media comprised of two wastewater streams, i.e., treated secondary effluent supplemented with the liquid fraction extracted from sludge following anaerobic digestion. This strain is commonly used for metabolic engineering to produce a variety of valuable chemical products and product precursors (e.g., lactate). However, initial attempts to grow PCC 7002 under otherwise-standard conditions of light and temperature failed. We thus systematically evaluated alternative cultivation conditions and then used multiple methods to dissect the apparent toxicity of the media under standard cultivation conditions. Sidestreams in wastewater treatment plants can serve as concentrated sources of nutrients (i.e., nitrogen and phosphorus) to support the growth of photosynthetic organisms that ultimately serve as feedstock for production of fuels and chemicals. However, other chemical characteristics of these streams may inhibit growth in unanticipated ways. Here, we evaluated the use of liquid recovered from municipal anaerobic digesters via gravity belt filtration as a nutrient source for growing the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7002. The gravity belt filtrate (GBF) contained high levels of complex dissolved organic matter (DOM), which seemed to negatively influence cells. We investigated the impact of GBF on physiological parameters such as growth rate, membrane integrity, membrane composition, photosystem composition, and oxygen evolution from photosystem II. At 37°C, we observed an inverse correlation between GBF concentration and membrane integrity. Radical production was also detected upon exposure to GBF at 37°C. However, the dose-dependent relationship between the GBF concentration and the lack of membrane integrity was abolished at 27°C. Immediate resuspension of strains in high levels of GBF showed markedly reduced oxygen evolution rates relative to those seen with the control. Taken together, the data indicate that one mechanism responsible for GBF toxicity to Synechococcus is the interruption of photosynthetic electron flow and subsequent phenomena. We hypothesize that this is likely due to the presence of phenolic compounds within the DOM. IMPORTANCE Cyanobacteria are viewed as promising platforms to produce fuels and/or high-value chemicals as part of so-called “biorefineries.” Their integration into wastewater treatment systems is particularly interesting because removal of the nitrogen and phosphorus in many wastewater streams is an expensive but necessary part of wastewater treatment. In this study, we evaluated strategies for cultivating Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7002 on media comprised of two wastewater streams, i.e., treated secondary effluent supplemented with the liquid fraction extracted from sludge following anaerobic digestion. This strain is commonly used for metabolic engineering to produce a variety of valuable chemical products and product precursors (e.g., lactate). However, initial attempts to grow PCC 7002 under otherwise-standard conditions of light and temperature failed. We thus systematically evaluated alternative cultivation conditions and then used multiple methods to dissect the apparent toxicity of the media under standard cultivation conditions.
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Ogawa T, Sonoike K. Evaluation of the Condition of Respiration and Photosynthesis by Measuring Chlorophyll Fluorescence in Cyanobacteria. Bio Protoc 2018; 8:e2834. [DOI: 10.21769/bioprotoc.2834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2018] [Revised: 04/17/2018] [Accepted: 04/18/2018] [Indexed: 11/02/2022] Open
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Ogawa T, Misumi M, Sonoike K. Estimation of photosynthesis in cyanobacteria by pulse-amplitude modulation chlorophyll fluorescence: problems and solutions. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2017; 133:63-73. [PMID: 28283890 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-017-0367-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2016] [Accepted: 03/02/2017] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic prokaryotes and widely used for photosynthetic research as model organisms. Partly due to their prokaryotic nature, however, estimation of photosynthesis by chlorophyll fluorescence measurements is sometimes problematic in cyanobacteria. For example, plastoquinone pool is reduced in the dark-acclimated samples in many cyanobacterial species so that conventional protocol developed for land plants cannot be directly applied for cyanobacteria. Even for the estimation of the simplest chlorophyll fluorescence parameter, F v/F m, some additional protocol such as addition of DCMU or illumination of weak blue light is necessary. In this review, those problems in the measurements of chlorophyll fluorescence in cyanobacteria are introduced, and solutions to those problems are given.
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- Takako Ogawa
- Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo, 162-8480, Japan
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan
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- Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo, 162-8480, Japan
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- Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo, 162-8480, Japan.
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Bennett HM, Altenrath C, Woods L, Davy SK, Webster NS, Bell JJ. Interactive effects of temperature and pCO 2 on sponges: from the cradle to the grave. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2017; 23:2031-2046. [PMID: 27550825 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2016] [Revised: 08/07/2016] [Accepted: 08/09/2016] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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As atmospheric CO2 concentrations rise, associated ocean warming (OW) and ocean acidification (OA) are predicted to cause declines in reef-building corals globally, shifting reefs from coral-dominated systems to those dominated by less sensitive species. Sponges are important structural and functional components of coral reef ecosystems, but despite increasing field-based evidence that sponges may be 'winners' in response to environmental degradation, our understanding of how they respond to the combined effects of OW and OA is limited. To determine the tolerance of adult sponges to climate change, four abundant Great Barrier Reef species were experimentally exposed to OW and OA levels predicted for 2100, under two CO2 Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs). The impact of OW and OA on early life-history stages was also assessed for one of these species to provide a more holistic view of species impacts. All species were generally unaffected by conditions predicted under RCP6.0, although environmental conditions projected under RCP8.5 caused significant adverse effects: with elevated temperature decreasing the survival of all species, increasing levels of tissue necrosis and bleaching, elevating respiration rates and decreasing photosynthetic rates. OA alone had little adverse effect, even under RCP8.5 concentrations. Importantly, the interactive effect of OW and OA varied between species with different nutritional modes, with elevated pCO2 exacerbating temperature stress in heterotrophic species but mitigating temperature stress in phototrophic species. This antagonistic interaction was reflected by reduced mortality, necrosis and bleaching of phototrophic species in the highest OW/OA treatment. Survival and settlement success of Carteriospongia foliascens larvae were unaffected by experimental treatments, and juvenile sponges exhibited greater tolerance to OW than their adult counterparts. With elevated pCO2 providing phototrophic species with protection from elevated temperature, across different life stages, climate change may ultimately drive a shift in the composition of sponge assemblages towards a dominance of phototrophic species.
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- Holly M Bennett
- School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand
- Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, 4810, Qld, Australia
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- Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, 4810, Qld, Australia
- AIMS@JCU, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld, 4811, Australia
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand
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- School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand
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- Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, 4810, Qld, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand
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Ooms MD, Graham PJ, Nguyen B, Sargent EH, Sinton D. Light dilution via wavelength management for efficient high-density photobioreactors. Biotechnol Bioeng 2017; 114:1160-1169. [DOI: 10.1002/bit.26261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2016] [Revised: 01/24/2017] [Accepted: 01/30/2017] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Matthew D. Ooms
- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering; Institute for Sustainable Energy; University of Toronto; 5 King's College Road Toronto M5S 3G8, Ontario Canada
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- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering; Institute for Sustainable Energy; University of Toronto; 5 King's College Road Toronto M5S 3G8, Ontario Canada
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- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering; Institute for Sustainable Energy; University of Toronto; 5 King's College Road Toronto M5S 3G8, Ontario Canada
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; University of Toronto; Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering; Institute for Sustainable Energy; University of Toronto; 5 King's College Road Toronto M5S 3G8, Ontario Canada
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Kirilovsky D, Kerfeld CA. Cyanobacterial photoprotection by the orange carotenoid protein. NATURE PLANTS 2016; 2:16180. [PMID: 27909300 DOI: 10.1038/nplants.2016.180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2016] [Accepted: 10/20/2016] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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In photosynthetic organisms, the production of dangerous oxygen species is stimulated under high irradiance. To cope with this stress, these organisms have evolved photoprotective mechanisms. One type of mechanism functions to decrease the energy arriving at the photochemical centres by increasing thermal dissipation at the level of antennae. In cyanobacteria, the trigger for this mechanism is the photoactivation of a soluble carotenoid protein, the orange carotenoid protein (OCP), which is a structurally and functionally modular protein. The inactive orange form (OCPo) is compact and globular, with the carotenoid spanning the effector and the regulatory domains. In the active red form (OCPr), the two domains are completely separated and the carotenoid has translocated entirely into the effector domain. The activated OCPr interacts with the phycobilisome (PBS), the cyanobacterial antenna, and induces excitation-energy quenching. A second protein, the fluorescence recovery protein (FRP), dislodges the active OCPr from the PBSs and accelerates its conversion to the inactive OCP.
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- Diana Kirilovsky
- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Institut de Biologie et Technologies de Saclay (iBiTec-S), Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Berkeley Synthetic Biology Institute, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Effect of Different Broad Waveband Lights on Membrane Lipids of a Cyanobacterium, Synechococcus sp., as Determined by UPLC-QToF-MS and Vibrational Spectroscopy. BIOLOGY 2016; 5:biology5020022. [PMID: 27223306 PMCID: PMC4929536 DOI: 10.3390/biology5020022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2016] [Revised: 05/17/2016] [Accepted: 05/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Differential profile of membrane lipids and pigments of a Synechococcus sp. cyanobacterial strain cells exposed to blue, green, red and white light are determined by means of liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry or diode array detection. Raman and ATR-IR spectra of intact cells under the diverse light wavebands are also reported. Blue light cells exhibited an increased content of photosynthetic pigments as well as specific species of membrane glycerolipids as compared to cells exposed to other wavebands. The A630/A680 ratio indicated an increased content of phycobilisomes (PBS) in the blue light-exposed cells. Some differences in the protein conformation between the four light waveband-exposed cells were deduced from the variable absorbance at specific wavenumbers in the FT-Raman and ATR-FTIR spectra, in particular bands assigned to amide I and amide II. Bands from 1180 to 950 cm(-1) in the ATR-FTIR spectrum suggest degraded outer membrane polysaccharide in the blue light-exposed cells.
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Darus L, Ledezma P, Keller J, Freguia S. Marine phototrophic consortia transfer electrons to electrodes in response to reductive stress. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2016; 127:347-354. [PMID: 26407568 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-015-0193-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2015] [Accepted: 09/17/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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This work studies how extracellular electron transfer (EET) from cyanobacteria-dominated marine microbial biofilms to solid electrodes is affected by the availability of inorganic carbon (Ci). The EET was recorded chronoamperometrically in the form of electrical current by a potentiostat in two identical photo-electrochemical cells using carbon electrodes poised at a potential of +0.6 V versus standard hydrogen electrode under 12/12 h illumination/dark cycles. The Ci was supplied by the addition of NaHCO3 to the medium and/or by sparging CO2 gas. At high Ci conditions, EET from the microbial biofilm to the electrodes was observed only during the dark phase, indicating the occurrence of a form of night-time respiration that can use insoluble electrodes as the terminal electron acceptor. At low or no Ci conditions, however, EET also occurred during illumination suggesting that, in the absence of their natural electron acceptor, some cyanobacteria are able to utilise solid electrodes as an electron sink. This may be a natural survival mechanism for cyanobacteria to maintain redox balance in environments with limiting CO2 and/or high light intensity.
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- Libertus Darus
- Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia
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- Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia
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- Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia
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- Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia.
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Ogawa T, Sonoike K. Effects of Bleaching by Nitrogen Deficiency on the Quantum Yield of Photosystem II in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 Revealed by Chl Fluorescence Measurements. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2016; 57:558-567. [PMID: 26858287 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcw010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2015] [Accepted: 01/11/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Estimation of photosynthesis by Chl fluorescence measurement of cyanobacteria is always problematic due to the interference from respiratory electron transfer and from phycocyanin fluorescence. The interference from respiratory electron transfer could be avoided by the use of DCMU or background illumination by blue light, which oxidizes the plastoquinone pool that tends to be reduced by respiration. On the other hand, the precise estimation of photosynthesis in cells with a different phycobilisome content by Chl fluorescence measurement is difficult. By subtracting the basal fluorescence due to the phycobilisome and PSI, it becomes possible to estimate the precise maximum quantum yield of PSII in cyanobacteria. Estimated basal fluorescence accounted for 60% of the minimum fluorescence, resulting in a large difference between the 'apparent' yield and 'true' yield under high phycocyanin conditions. The calculated value of the 'true' maximum quantum yield of PSII was around 0.8, which was similar to the value observed in land plants. The results suggest that the cause of the apparent low yield reported in cyanobacteria is mainly ascribed to the interference from phycocyanin fluorescence. We also found that the 'true' maximum quantum yield of PSII decreased under nitrogen-deficient conditions, suggesting the impairment of the PSII reaction center, while the 'apparent' maximum quantum yield showed a marginal change under the same conditions. Due to the high contribution of phycocyanin fluorescence in cyanobacteria, it is essential to eliminate the influence of the change in phycocyanin content on Chl fluorescence measurement and to evaluate the 'true' photosynthetic condition.
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- Takako Ogawa
- Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, 2-2 Wakamatsu-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8480 Japan Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan
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- Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, 2-2 Wakamatsu-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8480 Japan
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Kuzminov FI, Gorbunov MY. Energy dissipation pathways in Photosystem 2 of the diatom, Phaeodactylum tricornutum, under high-light conditions. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2016; 127:219-235. [PMID: 26220363 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-015-0180-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2015] [Accepted: 07/17/2015] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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To prevent photooxidative damage under supraoptimal light, photosynthetic organisms evolved mechanisms to thermally dissipate excess absorbed energy, known as non-photochemical quenching (NPQ). Here we quantify NPQ-induced alterations in light-harvesting processes and photochemical reactions in Photosystem 2 (PS2) in the pennate diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Using a combination of picosecond lifetime analysis and variable fluorescence technique, we examined the dynamics of NPQ activation upon transition from dark to high light. Our analysis revealed that NPQ activation starts with a 2-3-fold increase in the rate constant of non-radiative charge recombination in the reaction center (RC); however, this increase is compensated with a proportional increase in the rate constant of back reactions. The resulting alterations in photochemical processes in PS2 RC do not contribute directly to quenching of antenna excitons by the RC, but favor non-radiative dissipation pathways within the RC, reducing the yields of spin conversion of the RC chlorophyll to the triplet state. The NPQ-induced changes in the RC are followed by a gradual ~ 2.5-fold increase in the yields of thermal dissipation in light-harvesting complexes. Our data suggest that thermal dissipation in light-harvesting complexes is the major sink for NPQ; RCs are not directly involved in the NPQ process, but could contribute to photoprotection via reduction in the probability of (3)Chl formation.
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- Fedor I Kuzminov
- Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Biology Program, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA.
- International Laser Center, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia.
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- Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Biology Program, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA
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Zakar T, Laczko-Dobos H, Toth TN, Gombos Z. Carotenoids Assist in Cyanobacterial Photosystem II Assembly and Function. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:295. [PMID: 27014318 PMCID: PMC4785236 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2015] [Accepted: 02/24/2016] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Carotenoids (carotenes and xanthophylls) are ubiquitous constituents of living organisms. They are protective agents against oxidative stresses and serve as modulators of membrane microviscosity. As antioxidants they can protect photosynthetic organisms from free radicals like reactive oxygen species that originate from water splitting, the first step of photosynthesis. We summarize the structural and functional roles of carotenoids in connection with cyanobacterial Photosystem II. Although carotenoids are hydrophobic molecules, their complexes with proteins also allow cytoplasmic localization. In cyanobacterial cells such complexes are called orange carotenoid proteins, and they protect Photosystem II and Photosystem I by preventing their overexcitation through phycobilisomes (PBS). Recently it has been observed that carotenoids are not only required for the proper functioning, but also for the structural stability of PBSs.
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Kirilovsky D. Modulating energy arriving at photochemical reaction centers: orange carotenoid protein-related photoprotection and state transitions. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2015; 126:3-17. [PMID: 25139327 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-014-0031-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2014] [Accepted: 08/08/2014] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Photosynthetic organisms tightly regulate the energy arriving to the reaction centers in order to avoid photodamage or imbalance between the photosystems. To this purpose, cyanobacteria have developed mechanisms involving relatively rapid (seconds to minutes) changes in the photosynthetic apparatus. In this review, two of these processes will be described: orange carotenoid protein(OCP)-related photoprotection and state transitions which optimize energy distribution between the two photosystems. The photoactive OCP is a light intensity sensor and an energy dissipater. Photoactivation depends on light intensity and only the red-active OCP form, by interacting with phycobilisome cores, increases thermal energy dissipation at the level of the antenna. A second protein, the "fluorescence recovery protein", is needed to recover full antenna capacity under low light conditions. This protein accelerates OCP conversion to the inactive orange form and plays a role in dislodging the red OCP protein from the phycobilisome. The mechanism of state transitions is still controversial. Changes in the redox state of the plastoquinone pool induce movement of phycobilisomes and/or photosystems leading to redistribution of energy absorbed by phycobilisomes between PSII and PSI and/or to changes in excitation energy spillover between photosystems. The different steps going from the induction of redox changes to movement of phycobilisomes or photosystems remain to be elucidated.
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- Diana Kirilovsky
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), SB2SM, Bat 532, Institut de Biologie et Technologies de Saclay (iBiTec-S), 91191, Gif sur Yvette, France.
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR 8221, 91191, Gif sur Yvette, France.
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Cyanobacterial Light-Harvesting Phycobilisomes Uncouple From Photosystem I During Dark-To-Light Transitions. Sci Rep 2015; 5:14193. [PMID: 26388233 PMCID: PMC4585685 DOI: 10.1038/srep14193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2015] [Accepted: 08/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Photosynthetic organisms cope with changes in light quality by balancing the excitation energy flow between photosystems I (PSI) and II (PSII) through a process called state transitions. Energy redistribution has been suggested to be achieved by movement of the light-harvesting phycobilisome between PSI and PSII, or by nanometre scale rearrangements of the recently discovered PBS-PSII-PSI megacomplexes. The alternative ‘spillover’ model, on the other hand, states that energy redistribution is achieved by mutual association/dissociation of PSI and PSII. State transitions have always been studied by changing the redox state of the electron carriers using electron transfer inhibitors, or by applying illumination conditions with different colours. However, the molecular events during natural dark-to-light transitions in cyanobacteria have largely been overlooked and still remain elusive. Here we investigated changes in excitation energy transfer from phycobilisomes to the photosystems upon dark-light transitions, using picosecond fluorescence spectroscopy. It appears that megacomplexes are not involved in these changes, and neither does spillover play a role. Instead, the phycobilisomes partly energetically uncouple from PSI in the light but hardly couple to PSII.
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Bricker TM, Mummadisetti MP, Frankel LK. Recent advances in the use of mass spectrometry to examine structure/function relationships in photosystem II. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY 2015; 152:227-46. [PMID: 26390944 DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2015.08.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2015] [Revised: 08/27/2015] [Accepted: 08/31/2015] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Tandem mass spectrometry often coupled with chemical modification techniques, is developing into increasingly important tool in structural biology. These methods can provide important supplementary information concerning the structural organization and subunit make-up of membrane protein complexes, identification of conformational changes occurring during enzymatic reactions, identification of the location of posttranslational modifications, and elucidation of the structure of assembly and repair complexes. In this review, we will present a brief introduction to Photosystem II, tandem mass spectrometry and protein modification techniques that have been used to examine the photosystem. We will then discuss a number of recent case studies that have used these techniques to address open questions concerning PS II. These include the nature of subunit-subunit interactions within the phycobilisome, the interaction of phycobilisomes with Photosystem I and the Orange Carotenoid Protein, the location of CyanoQ, PsbQ and PsbP within Photosystem II, and the identification of phosphorylation and oxidative modification sites within the photosystem. Finally, we will discuss some of the future prospects for the use of these methods in examining other open questions in PS II structural biochemistry.
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- Terry M Bricker
- Department of Biological Sciences, Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, United States.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, United States
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Maksimov EG, Klementiev KE, Shirshin EA, Tsoraev GV, Elanskaya IV, Paschenko VZ. Features of temporal behavior of fluorescence recovery in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2015; 125:167-178. [PMID: 25800518 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-015-0124-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2014] [Accepted: 03/18/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Under high photon flux density of solar radiation, the photosynthetic apparatus can be damaged. To prevent this photodestruction, cyanobacteria developed special mechanisms of non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) of excitation energy in phycobilisomes. In Synechocystis, NPQ is triggered by the orange carotenoid protein (OCP), which is sensitive to blue-green illumination allowing it to bind to the phycobilisome reducing the flow of energy to the photosystems. Consequent decoupling of OCP and recovery of phycobilisome fluorescence in vivo is controlled by the so called fluorescence recovery protein (FRP). In this work, the role of the phycobilisome core components, apcD and apcF, in non-photochemical quenching and subsequent fluorescence recovery in the phycobilisomes of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 has been investigated. Using a single photon counting technique, we have registered fluorescence decay spectra with picosecond time resolution during fluorescence recovery. In order to estimate the activation energy for the photocycle, spectroscopic studies in dependency on the temperature from 5 to 45 °C have been performed. It was found that fluorescence quenching and recovery were strongly temperature dependent for all strains exhibiting characteristic non-linear time courses. The rise of the fluorescence intensity during fluorescence recovery after NPQ can be completely described by the increase of the phycobilisome core fluorescence lifetime. It was shown that fluorescence recovery of apcD- and apcF-deficient mutants is characterized by a significantly lower activation energy barrier compared to wild type. This phenomenon indicates that apcD and apcF gene products may be required for proper interaction of FRP and OCP coupled to the phycobilisome core. In addition, we found that the rate of fluorescence recovery decreases with an increase of the non-photochemical quenching amplitude, probably due to depletion of substrate for the enzymatic reaction catalyzed by FRP.
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- E G Maksimov
- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992, Moscow, Russia,
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Kusama Y, Inoue S, Jimbo H, Takaichi S, Sonoike K, Hihara Y, Nishiyama Y. Zeaxanthin and Echinenone Protect the Repair of Photosystem II from Inhibition by Singlet Oxygen in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2015; 56:906-16. [PMID: 25663484 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcv018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2014] [Accepted: 01/30/2015] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Carotenoids are important components of antioxidative systems in photosynthetic organisms. We investigated the roles of zeaxanthin and echinenone in the protection of PSII from photoinhibition in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, using mutants of the cyanobacterium that lack these carotenoids. The activity of PSII in mutant cells deficient in either zeaxanthin or echinenone was more sensitive to strong light than the activity in wild-type cells, and the activity in mutant cells deficient in both carotenoids was hypersensitive to strong light, indicating that the absence of these carotenoids increased the extent of photoinhibition. Nonetheless, the rate of photodamage to PSII, as measured in the presence of chloramphenicol, which blocks the repair of PSII, was unaffected by the absence of either carotenoid, suggesting that these carotenoids might act by protecting the repair of PSII. Knockout of the gene for the so-called orange carotenoid protein (OCP), in which the 3'-hydroxyechinenone cofactor, a derivative of echinenone, is responsible for the thermal dissipation of excitation energy, increased the extent of photoinhibition but did not affect photodamage, suggesting that thermal dissipation also protects the repair of PSII. In mutant cells lacking OCP, as well as those lacking zeaxanthin and echinenone, the production of singlet oxygen was stimulated and the synthesis de novo of various proteins, including the D1 protein, was markedly suppressed under strong light. These observations suggest that the carotenoids and thermal dissipation might protect the repair of photodamaged PSII by depressing the levels of singlet oxygen that inhibits protein synthesis.
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- Yuri Kusama
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama, 338-8570 Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama, 338-8570 Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama, 338-8570 Japan
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- Department of Biology, Nippon Medical School, Kyonan-cho, Musashino, Tokyo, 180-0023 Japan
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- Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, 2-2 Wakamatsu-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8480 Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama, 338-8570 Japan Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama, 338-8570 Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama, 338-8570 Japan Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama, 338-8570 Japan
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Liu H, Zhang H, King JD, Wolf NR, Prado M, Gross ML, Blankenship RE. Mass spectrometry footprinting reveals the structural rearrangements of cyanobacterial orange carotenoid protein upon light activation. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2015; 1837:1955-1963. [PMID: 25256653 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2014.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2014] [Revised: 09/09/2014] [Accepted: 09/12/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The orange carotenoid protein (OCP), a member of the family of blue light photoactive proteins, is required for efficient photoprotection in many cyanobacteria. Photoexcitation of the carotenoid in the OCP results in structural changes within the chromophore and the protein to give an active red form of OCP that is required for phycobilisome binding and consequent fluorescence quenching. We characterized the light-dependent structural changes by mass spectrometry-based carboxyl footprinting and found that an α helix in the N-terminal extension of OCP plays a key role in this photoactivation process. Although this helix is located on and associates with the outside of the β-sheet core in the C-terminal domain of OCP in the dark, photoinduced changes in the domain structure disrupt this interaction. We propose that this mechanism couples light-dependent carotenoid conformational changes to global protein conformational dynamics in favor of functional phycobilisome binding, and is an essential part of the OCP photocycle.
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- Haijun Liu
- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, MO 63130, USA; Department of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis, MO 63130, USA; Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC), Washington University in St. Louis, MO 63130, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis, MO 63130, USA; Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC), Washington University in St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, MO 63130, USA; Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC), Washington University in St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
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- Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC), Washington University in St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, MO 63130, USA; Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC), Washington University in St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis, MO 63130, USA; Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC), Washington University in St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, MO 63130, USA; Department of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis, MO 63130, USA; Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC), Washington University in St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
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Derks A, Schaven K, Bruce D. Diverse mechanisms for photoprotection in photosynthesis. Dynamic regulation of photosystem II excitation in response to rapid environmental change. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2015; 1847:468-485. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2015.02.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2014] [Revised: 02/03/2015] [Accepted: 02/07/2015] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Stirbet A, Riznichenko GY, Rubin AB, Govindjee. Modeling chlorophyll a fluorescence transient: relation to photosynthesis. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2015; 79:291-323. [PMID: 24910205 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297914040014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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To honor Academician Alexander Abramovitch Krasnovsky, we present here an educational review on the relation of chlorophyll a fluorescence transient to various processes in photosynthesis. The initial event in oxygenic photosynthesis is light absorption by chlorophylls (Chls), carotenoids, and, in some cases, phycobilins; these pigments form the antenna. Most of the energy is transferred to reaction centers where it is used for charge separation. The small part of energy that is not used in photochemistry is dissipated as heat or re-emitted as fluorescence. When a photosynthetic sample is transferred from dark to light, Chl a fluorescence (ChlF) intensity shows characteristic changes in time called fluorescence transient, the OJIPSMT transient, where O (the origin) is for the first measured minimum fluorescence level; J and I for intermediate inflections; P for peak; S for semi-steady state level; M for maximum; and T for terminal steady state level. This transient is a real signature of photosynthesis, since diverse events can be related to it, such as: changes in redox states of components of the linear electron transport flow, involvement of alternative electron routes, the build-up of a transmembrane pH gradient and membrane potential, activation of different nonphotochemical quenching processes, activation of the Calvin-Benson cycle, and other processes. In this review, we present our views on how different segments of the OJIPSMT transient are influenced by various photosynthetic processes, and discuss a number of studies involving mathematical modeling and simulation of the ChlF transient. A special emphasis is given to the slower PSMT phase, for which many studies have been recently published, but they are less known than on the faster OJIP phase.
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- A Stirbet
- 204 Anne Burras Lane, Newport News, VA 23606, USA.
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- Department of Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Center of Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
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Zhao W, Xie J, Xu X, Zhao J. State transitions and fluorescence quenching in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803 in response to changes in light quality and intensity. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY 2014; 142:169-77. [PMID: 25543550 DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2014.10.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2014] [Revised: 10/27/2014] [Accepted: 10/30/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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State transition and non-photochemical fluorescence quenching in cyanobacteria are short-term adaptations of photosynthetic apparatus to changes in light quality and intensity, however, the kinetic details and relationship are still not clear. In this work, time-dependent 77K fluorescence spectra were monitored for cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803 cells under blue, orange and blue-green light in a series of intensities. The characteristic fluorescence signals indicated state transition taking place exclusively under 430-450 or 580-600nm light or 480-550nm light at the intensities ⩽150μEm(-2)s(-1) to achieve a conserved level with variable rate constant. Under 480-500nm or 530-550nm light at the intensities ⩾160μEm(-2)s(-1), state transition took place at first but stopped as soon as the fluorescence quenching appeared. The dependence of appearance, induction period, level and rate constant for the quenching on light intensity suggests that a critical concentration of photo-activated OCPs is necessary and may be achieved by a dynamic equilibrium between the activation and deactivation under light.
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- Wenfeng Zhao
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, P.O. Box 101, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 2, 1st North Street, Zhongguancun, Beijing 100190, PR China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, P.O. Box 101, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 2, 1st North Street, Zhongguancun, Beijing 100190, PR China.
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, P.O. Box 101, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 2, 1st North Street, Zhongguancun, Beijing 100190, PR China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, P.O. Box 101, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 2, 1st North Street, Zhongguancun, Beijing 100190, PR China.
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